divx88:objective-c ... about all you need to make fun of any ios device. It falls under the same category as COBOL, it cripples the mind and therefore should be regarded as a criminal offense to teach or promote it's use.

Obj-C has some really awesome language features, and honestly, its memory management is the best thing since immutable memory, a la LISP. It's also a syntactically bizarre retrofit that combines the worst aspects of C with the worst aspects of C++ and hides it behind Ada-like syntax, except when it doesn't.

But iOS doesn't require that you develop in Obj-C anymore. They just recommend it.

likefunbutnot:My main complaints about iOS have to do with the inability to directly address network storage and its use of data sandboxing, which make files stored on an ithing accessible to only one application and disallow storage of files that don't have an associated app. All of which drive me completely insane.

Wow, that is crappy. My un-rooted Android can access files directly on my LAN. I can grab a Word doc, Excel sheet, mp3, video, whatever if I need it quickly.

phaseolus:tgambitg: phaseolus: Skimmed tfa, didn't notice any cutesy-poo dessert-based Android version nicknames, and rejoiced. Those annoy me more than they ought to.

Would you rather them use Jungle Cat based version nicknames(OSX)? Or City based nicknames(Windows)? Or Alliterative Animal based nicknames(Ubuntu Linux)?

The only reason those don't annoy me quite so much is a.) no one cares what the hell Windows OS versions' nicknames are, and b.) I don't have any reason to pay attention to the others.

Me, I like the numbers just fine. Occasionally I'll run across some bad writing by fanboys who assume everyone's going to have the whole list memorized, and then I get angry because I have to go somewhere else to figure out if Zabaglione is more current than Tres Leches Cake and how they both compare to That-Orange-Pudding-at-the-Indian-Buffet-Place.

It's not that hard to figure out which one is newer, here they are in order of release...

tgambitg:phaseolus: Skimmed tfa, didn't notice any cutesy-poo dessert-based Android version nicknames, and rejoiced. Those annoy me more than they ought to.

Would you rather them use Jungle Cat based version nicknames(OSX)? Or City based nicknames(Windows)? Or Alliterative Animal based nicknames(Ubuntu Linux)?

The only reason those don't annoy me quite so much is a.) no one cares what the hell Windows OS versions' nicknames are, and b.) I don't have any reason to pay attention to the others.

Me, I like the numbers just fine. Occasionally I'll run across some bad writing by fanboys who assume everyone's going to have the whole list memorized, and then I get angry because I have to go somewhere else to figure out if Zabaglione is more current than Tres Leches Cake and how they both compare to That-Orange-Pudding-at-the-Indian-Buffet-Place.